February 2024 Legislative Update
February marks the bill introduction deadline for the legislature with 2,124 bills introduced by both houses. In this month of love and hearts, it’s not looking rosie for the state’s […]
Tag: Biliteracy
Bridging California’s Bilingual Teacher Gap in Early Childhood Education
We are pleased to introduce our inaugural policy brief in our series on Dual Language Learners—a thorough examination of the shortage of bilingual early childhood educators in California. Given that 60% of young children […]
Lynne Aoki: A Warrior in the Struggle for English Learner Rights
This month we lost one of our warriors and leaders – a friend who had been at the forefront of the struggle for the rights of English Learners and their […]
Who are the Recipients of the Seal of Biliteracy?
At high school graduation ceremonies across California, families and educators recognized and congratulated students for their years of academic achievements. In California, 418,205 students earned high school diplomas in 2017-18; […]
Urgent Action Alert: Support Multilingualism
SIGN AND SEND LETTER TODAY – URGENT: RE: Invest $84 million for the Promotion and Support of Biliteracy and Multilingualism for all students and Building Bilingual Teacher Capacity and the […]
Action Alert: Ask the Governor to Sign AB 2514 (Thurmond)
We want to thank each of you for sending letters a few weeks ago to get AB 2514 (Thurmond) out of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Our voices were heard and […]